“A Zanu-PF-affiliated organisation called the Citizens has expressed its desire to see the head of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Election Observer Mission (SEOM), Nevers Mumba, face sanctions due to his critical election report on the August elections,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“Speaking to the press in Harare, a representative of the Citizens, Lloyd Machacha, stated that the organisation would gather signatures for a petition against Mumba and later submit it to SADC.
“According to Machacha, "The report by Mumba violates a number of clauses within the guidelines of SADC. The mission was also headed by someone with a criminal record, violating its 14.3(k) of its guidelines. The profile of someone who is supposed to head this delegation is not supposed to have any criminal record. The only report that we can acknowledge is the European Union report because it was clear and straightforward.”
Some people are penny-wise but pound-foolish, this is one extreme case of that! And when you have enjoyed absolute power for 43 years as these Zanu PF thugs have done, you become pound-foolish, arrogant and cantankerous to boot!
Zimbabwe is a failed state, its economy has collapse forcing millions of our people to leave the country and millions who have remained live in abject poverty all because the country has failed to hold free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF has remained in power these last 43 years because the party rigged elections and 43 years of corrupt and tyrannical rule has left the country in total economic ruins and political paralysis.
Dr Nevers Mumba and his SADC election observer team dismiss the 23 August 2023 Zimbabwe elections as flawed and illegal, which is all true and factual; opening the door for Zimbabwe to deal with this curse of rigged elections. Instead of welcoming this new opportunity and be grateful to Dr. Mumba’s team Zanu PF and it apologists have mounted one wave after another of attacks on the person of Dr Mumba and President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia who appointed Dr Mumba. The regime could not deny the 2023 elections were flawed and illegal and so they attacked the messenger, Dr Mumba, for daring to report the truth.
“The mission was also headed by someone with a criminal record, violating its 14.3(k) of its guidelines,” Machacha argue.
Zanu PF has just violate the constitution of Zimbabwe by failing to hold free, fair and credible elections (not for the first time either) whose consequences affect millions of Zimbabweans now and for decades to come. You ignore that to focus of Dr Mumba’s criminal record even though the said record did not stop him doing the right thing!
These Zimbabweans zealots (shame on us all who have said nothing to condemn it) who are persecuting Dr Nevers Mumba for not just doing the right thing but saving the nation on the Sabbath. This gives a totally different meaning to “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
Of course, every thinking Zimbabwean would welcome a truthful SEOM report with Dr Mumba and his criminal record than another false election report by someone who has never said boo to a fly!
In a way it is good that SADC leaders should hear about Machacha and company’s idiotic persecution Dr Mumba; it will underline the hell ordinary Zimbabweans have been living in all these years under this Zanu PF dictatorship. If these Zanu PF thugs can make Dr Mumba’s, a prominent figure, life hell how much worse an unknown person who dares cross swords with these thugs.
On 31 October 2023, the SADC leaders extraordinary summit must uphold the SEOM’s report, deny this corrupt, tyrannical Zanu PF regime legitimacy and appoint a National Transition Authority (NTA). The NTA will tasked to implement the democratic reforms and thus end the Zanu PF dictatorship.
If SADC leaders fail to uphold the damning election report then they would be betraying Dr Mumba and his team’s hard work and the abuse he has suffered from Zanu PF thugs would have been for nothing. But worst of all, their failure would be betraying the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who have been subjected to the Zanu PF thuggery for 43 years and counting.
SADC 2023 Zimbabwe elections final report is out and it is crystal clear, the process was flawed and illegal and per se could not produce a legitimate government!
ReplyDelete"Conclusion 13.3
The SEOM noted that, as detailed in sections 6 and 7 of this report, some aspects of the Harmonised Elections fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections (2021)."
SADC leader must deny Zanu PF legitimacy and clear the deck for National Transition Authority!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtPtPNO4gsc
I have never said Zanu PF has never done anything wrong much less that they should not be held to account. I have stated here and will say so again that Zanu PF has failed to hold free, fair and credible elections in 43 years and hence the reason I have put reforms top on the national agenda.
ReplyDeleteUnlike you, I am realistic enough to also admit that we have failed to make any meaningful progress in implementing the reforms because MDC/CCC leaders have proven these last 23 years to be corrupt and incompetent. I have dared to hold them to account for this and refuse you idiotic argument that they should not be held to account.
You keep wittering about “you always blaming Chamisa”. If you are going to always defend him then tell us how many meaningful reforms he has implemented in 23 years. Tell why he said he had plugged all the vote rigging holes when he did no such thing. In this case, Chamisa or you, since you claim to know everything, should produce the evidence proving his 11 September letter was deliver long before 5 October.
Let us have the facts and deal with the facts! As for accountability, all public office holders are accountable to the public that includes Zanu PF and CCC leaders; that is a bitter pill to swallow for a simpleton schooled in the Animal Farm’s Boxer mentality of “napoleon is always right!” Get this, democratic accountability is none negotiable!
Mnangagwa admits he rigged the elections; the SADC damning report must be enforced to save Zimbabwe from the political impostor.
ReplyDeleteDiscussion 11.55 UK time.
https://streamyard.com/c22cy4yi9t
Mnangagwa admits he rigged the elections, confirming he is an impostor who is democratically unaccountable.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are a democratically unaccountable impostor you can afford to be reckless and wasteful and he is criminally reckless and wasteful! Mubvapiripo hadiwi pafume yedzidz!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuWscYkPsAc
@ Ronita
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with you.
I would add that for the first 20 years after independence many people considered Mugabe and his Zanu PF friends untouchable who can do no wrong, even at the height of the Gukurahundi Massacre. This allowed Zanu PF to dig in and entrench the autocratic dictatorship we have to this day.
Alas! We did not learn from that mistake because there are many who have placed Chamisa and company on a similar demigod pedestal. They believe in Chamisa's "God is in it!" they refuse to open their eyes to the reality God is not in doing foolish things like participating in flawed elections so flawed there is even a verified voters' roll and expect to win!
SADC election observers have produced the damning final report, it is clear the process was flawed and illegal and could not produce a legitimate government.
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa admit to rigging the election, he even boasts and laugh about, but will not admit to being illegitimate.
The A1 questions is what are SADC leaders going to do about damning report and Mnangagwa total indifference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-CIhbXgZus
You can sweep the problem of an ignorant and gullible electorate under the carpet but that will not stop the simpleton doing stupid things tomorrow. Let's deal with it!
ReplyDelete@ Kahari
ReplyDelete“Nhai vanhu vezanu,manetsekereyiko nemombe dzisiri dzenyu? 🤔 Fudzayi dzenyuka. Isu kana Chamisa wacho ari benzi,ndoratoda iroro leave us to follow him and his crazy ways. Moswera kuda kubvisa mwana wemvana madziwa mukuda chii kwairi? Haaa nhai.”
When you hold public office, what you do or fail to do affects the whole nation and not only those who belong to your political party, this is why those in public office are accountable to everybody. It is a very simple and rational preposition - it is shocking how some people have struggled to understand it! Some will never ever understand it!
The tragedy is these simpleton have the vote and they are the ones who are keeping the buffoons on both sides of the political divide in power! No wonder we are a failed state and stuck there.
@ Developer
ReplyDeleteVery interesting!
SADC did help to pressure Zanu PF to accept the 2008 Global Political Agreement. If MDC had not sold out , the 2008 to 2013 GNU would have implemented the democratic reforms and thus ended the Zanu PF dictatorship.
We, the people of Zimbabwe failed to play our role during the GNU to ensure all the reforms were implemented. We have done nothing to convince SADC that we will get the reforms implemented this time if we got another chance.
We must remove the log in our own eyes before attending to the specks in the SADC leaders' eye!
"A lot of people are saying you are too slow, no, take it easy we know what we are doing. We understand the pulse of this nation, we know our influence, our capacity," said Chamisa.
ReplyDelete"Organising and mobilising are not our weaknesses, we have many but those are not. We can organise so well and mobile so well that we can even persuade Zanu-PF members to be part of this issue because poverty knows no party.
"I have been across the whole country, people are charged, the mood is electric, people are raring to go.”
MDC/CCC has failed to implement even one democratic reform in 23 years and yet this was and still is the number one task they were elected to do, as the party’s original name implied. The party has blundered from pillar to post and is going nowhere. But when the followers have no idea where they are going or how to get there, the leaders will get away with anything!
“We know what we are doing!” Last time he said CCC would win big because he had plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop-holes!
Zimbabwe is a failed state because the country is led by buffoon, on both sides of the political divide, and is cursed to have some one the most ignorant and naive electorate of earth who are keeping the buffoons in power!
Of course Chamisa, just like Mnangagwa, has no clue what he doing. He is just blundering from pillar to post! And the wildebeest CCC herd are following him blindly like sheep to the slaughter. With such a dum electorate, you are even worship for blundering!
"A lot of people are saying you are too slow, no, take it easy we know what we are doing. We understand the pulse of this nation, we know our influence, our capacity," said Chamisa.
ReplyDelete"Organising and mobilising are not our weaknesses, we have many but those are not. We can organise so well and mobile so well that we can even persuade Zanu-PF members to be part of this issue because poverty knows no party.
"I have been across the whole country, people are charged, the mood is electric, people are raring to go.”
MDC/CCC has failed to implement even one democratic reform in 23 years and yet this was and still is the number one task they were elected to do, as the party’s original name implied. The party has blundered from pillar to post and is going nowhere. But when the followers have no idea where they are going or how to get there, the leaders will get away with anything!
“We know what we are doing!” Last time he said CCC would win big because he had plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop-holes! Zanu PF went on to blatantly rig the elections for the umpteenth time. The wildebeest CCC herd did not even notice what happened, it was all water off a duck’s back.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because the country is led by buffoon, on both sides of the political divide, and is cursed to have some one the most ignorant and naive electorate of earth who are keeping the buffoons in power!
Of course Chamisa, just like Mnangagwa, has no clue what he doing. He is just blundering from pillar to post! And the wildebeest CCC herd are following him blindly like sheep to the slaughter. With such a dum electorate, you are even worship for blundering!